Joan Sutherland sings "Let the bright Seraphim" from Handel's oratorio Samson.
"Let the bright Seraphim in burning row
Their loud uplifted angel trumpets blow . . ."
Was the above the source of Alex's line "Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones" in A Clockwork Orange, by the author and composer Anthony Burgess?
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